The role of vitamin D in protecting type 1 diabetes mellitus

Autor: Dung Ngoc Pham Nguyen, Lan Thi Hoang Nguyen, Khanh vinh quoc Luong
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Diabetes/metabolism research and reviews. 21(4)
ISSN: 1520-7552
Popis: The relationship between autoimmune diabetes or type 1 diabetes mellitus and vitamin D has been reported in the literature. Many factors, environmental and genetic, have been known, as risk factors, to cause both type 1 diabetes and vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D treatment has improved or prevented type 1 diabetes mellitus in animals and humans. Vitamin D also has been known to protect from autoimmune diseases in animal models. Therefore, it would be interesting to review the role of vitamin D in type 1 diabetes mellitus.
Databáze: OpenAIRE